Aphasia intervention has made increasing use of technology in recent years. The evidence
base, which is largely limited to the investigation of spoken language outcomes, indicates …

We welcome the lead article (Rose,) and congratulate Miranda Rose for raising important
issues for the utility of gesture and pantomime in the rehabilitation of people with aphasia …

This study addresses the use of co-speech gestures in informal face-to-face interaction
involving persons with and without aphasia (language disorder caused by acquired brain …

Background: Gesture and its effects on speech production has been a topic of interest,
especially in studies of individuals with language impairment. Research on word retrieval in …

Background: Co-verbal gestures refer to hand or arm movements made during speaking.
Spoken language and gestures have been shown to be tightly integrated in human …

Purpose In this study, the authors (a) investigated whether a group of people with severe
aphasia could learn a vocabulary of pantomime gestures through therapy and (b) compared …

This post hoc study investigated coverbal gesture patterns in two persons with chronic
Wernicke's aphasia. They had both received therapy focusing on multimodal communication …

Many clinicians agree that using gesture can be a helpful compensatory strategy in aphasia.
More contentious is whether or not gestures can cue speech. Some studies suggest that …

Gestures might serve communicative functions by supplementing spoken expressions or
restorative functions by facilitating speech production. Also, speakers with speech deficits …

According to the hypothesis that gesture and speech base on a common communicative
intention but are two independent production processes, the two communication channels …